All this does not matter. Your personal survival is yours to fully understand and share with your clicks. Many people’s reasons for not getting involved in cryptocurrency in 2017 could be they did not get the information, some did but felt it was a scam, some got but did not have the capital to spare for it.
Telling your life story is going unnecessarily emotional about the whole thing and same way people who have bought bitcoin in 2017 and did not make it till now is the same way people who did not buy but aren’t around anymore. If you see a clear opportunity and you have what it takes to go for it then make that move.